The Village of Jordan is located in the northwest part of the Town of Elbridge, west of Syracuse.

Due to the canal, Jordan became larger than Elbridge Village, farther south.

The Village of Elbridge, is a village located in the western part of the Town of Elbridge and the western area of Onondaga County, New York, USA, about west of Syracuse.

* Living Places: Village of Elbridge

The Town of Elbridge includes two incorporated villages: the Village of Elbridge ( incorporated in 1848 ) and the Village of Jordan ( incorporated in 1835 ).

The Village of Elbridge was located on a well-traveled Indian trail that eventually became New York State Route 5.

Village of Elbridge commercial center, corner of Jordan Road and Route 5 ( Main Street ), 1 / 2011 Several waterways, principally Skaneateles Creek and Carpenter's Brook, provided water power and sustenance.

Elbridge ( specifically the Village of Elbridge ) is the headquarters for Tessy Plastics, which manufactures injection molded plastic products.

* Elbridge – The Village of Elbridge near the center of the town at the junction of NY-5 and NY-317.

* Village of Elbridge

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814 ) was an American statesman and diplomat.

Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the third of twelve children.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

The word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under the then-governor Elbridge Gerry ( pronounced ; 1744 – 1814 ).

Essex County is famous as the area that Elbridge Gerry ( who was born and raised in Marblehead ) districted into a salamander-like shape in 1812 that gave rise to the word gerrymandering.

Sales Manager and Secretary Elbridge Blish Thompson who was a Hanover College and Yale University alumnus lost his life in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

The land was subsequently part of the Pemaquid Patent, granted by the Plymouth Council for New England in 1631 to Robert Aldsworth and Gyles Elbridge, merchants from Bristol, England, from which the town derives its name.

The first documented sale of public land in this area was recorded in 1823 to Elbridge Deming, who later built a log cabin on land in section 9 ( in the area of M-24 and Metamora Road ) of the township, around the spring of 1832.

Originally part of Elbridge Township, Leavitt Township was divided off and named for Hazen Leavitt, the first settler in the area, who arrived in 1864.

* Elbridge G. Spaulding, Congressman and New York political leader was born in Summerhill.

* William Elbridge Sewell, Governor of Guam was born here.

The town was originally called the " Town of Gerrysville " after Vice-President Elbridge Gerry.

* Elbridge Gerry, U. S. Vice President ( 1813-4 ) for whom the term gerrymander was named

Despite the intensive military operations, apparently no serious thought was given stripping Madison of his powers and duties temporarily, perhaps partly because his Vice President, Elbridge Gerry, also was in poor health and nearing age 70.

In contrast to the straightness of the turnpike, Topsfield was one of the towns surrounded by the original " Gerrymander "-meandering electoral districts drawn by Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812 to further the interests of his political party.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

He was so impressed that he returned with his family in 1793. First Congregational Church, Main Street Elbridge.

Elbridge was part of Military Township No. 5 ( Camillus ) created following the American Revolution and given to veterans in lieu of payment for service during the War for Independence.

The Town of Elbridge was formed in 1829 from the Town of Camillus.

Although the New York State thruway runs through the Town of Elbridge, and very close to Jordan itself, there was no exit built for the town.

The company, which was founded in 1973 by Henry Beck, employs 1, 000 people worldwide – 500 at the Elbridge plant alone.

Eight different handwriting experts ( Albert S. Osborn, Elbridge W. Stein, John F. Tyrrell, Herbert J. Walter, Harry M. Cassidy, Wilmer T. Souder, Albert D. Osborn, and Clark Sellers ) were called by the prosecution to the witness stand, where they pointed out similarities between words and letters in the ransom notes and in Hauptmann's writing specimens ( which included documents written before he was arrested, such as automobile registration applications ).

Congressman and Buffalo banker Elbridge G. Spaulding prepared a bill, based on the Free Banking Law of New York, that eventually became the National Banking Act of 1863.

The Elbridge Elementary School Elbridge Elementary School now on the site of the former MUnro Academynow occupies the site which The Architectural Instructor Journal called " an open landscape ... surrounded by trees, which with the irregularity of the plan and outline of the structure itself, contribute to its picturesque effect.

The Main Street of Elbridge ( Route 5 ) is lined with beautiful 19th century homes, including at least one that is said to have been a station on the Underground Railroad and the Wayside Inn.

He joined DeWitt Clinton on the Federalist Party ticket for the U. S. presidential election, 1812, but was defeated by James Madison and Elbridge Gerry.

The river is named for Elbridge Trask who settled on the shores of Tillamook Bay in 1848.

In 1960 he published Trask, a historical novel about Elbridge Trask, an Oregon settler in the 1840s who was the first white homesteader on Tillamook Bay.

Gerry was born on December 6, 1813 in Waterford, Maine and was a grandson of former U. S. Vice-President Elbridge Gerry.

The recording was done on January 8, 1964, a mere two weeks after founding Temptation Elbridge Bryant had been fired, and Jimmy Ruffin's younger brother David Ruffin had taken Bryant's place.

Gerry's first name came from John Elbridge, one of his mother's ancestors.

* 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry " gerrymanders " for the first time.

Among the most prominent of these were Elbridge Ayer Burbank, George Catlin, Seth Eastman, Paul Kane, W. Langdon Kihn, Charles Bird King, Joseph Henry Sharp, and John Mix Stanley.

In 1789 when James Madison proposed to insert the word " national " in the part of the Bill of Rights providing that " no religion shall be established by law ," Elbridge Gerry told Congress that the Antifederalists had objected to the injustice of that name because they favored a federal government, while the Federalists favored " a national one.

* March 18 – William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer and Governor of Guam ( b. 1851 )

* February 11, 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering.

* November 23 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1744 )

* February 11 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering.

* November 16 – William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer and Governor of Guam ( d. 1904 )

* July 17 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician ( d. 1814 )

Seeking a New Englander for a running mate, the caucus initially chose New Hampshire governor John Langdon to balance the ticket, but after Langdon declined due to his age, a second caucus nominated Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts for the Vice Presidency, which had been vacant since George Clinton's death a month earlier.

George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, William R. King, Henry Wilson and Thomas A. Hendricks died in office, and John C. Calhoun resigned.

In response, Bergh himself, along with Elbridge T. Gerry and John D. Wright, formed the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NYSPCC ) in 1875.

* Elbridge Ayer Burbank ( 1858-1949 ), portrait painter of Native Americans.

Elbridge Ayer Burbank pencil sketch.

Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists, from which the term gerrymander is derived.